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‘OUR TOWN’ STAGED THIS MONTH Lakeside Audience Savors Thornton Wilder Classic…
FINE FOOD • FUN FOOD Keep It Simple: There’s Nothing Like A Diner – Or Simple Tuna Melt Editor’s Note: These mini restaurant reviews are prepared by the Summer Dreams staff. Nothing beats a good tuna melt. And I mean a GOOD tuna melt! Plaza Diner in Oneonta has just that. The tuna doesn’t have so many fillers that you can’t taste it. It’s got just the right amount of mayo mixed in. Then it’s topped with melty cheese and…
SUMMER DREAMS Hartwick Family’s Blueberry Picking Now In 44th Year By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com HARTWICK SEMINARY – David Ingalls knows the cure for whatever might trouble you: “I get a lot of doctors here from Bassett, and I want to tell them they should write prescriptions for people to come and pick blueberries!” Ingalls owns Ingalls Blueberry Hill on Seminary Road, the only certified organic U-Pick in Otsego County. “That makes all the difference,” he said. “It’s…
JEFF IDELSON OBSERVES: ‘Grassroots’ Clinics Lure Youngsters Back To Baseball By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – During one of his clinics in Chicago, Grassroots Baseball co-founder Jeff Idelson got to see first-hand how baseball can change a life. “We were at the Union League Boys & Girls Club in Chicago and Goose Gossage was playing catch with a young boy,” he said. “This kid had never put a glove on, and afterwards, his older brother came over…
50TH ANNIVERSARY THIS WEEK Woodstock Festgoers Model Citizens Today Stuck In Traffic, Mayor Herzig Didn’t Make It By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Woodstock, baby. “Meg called me one day and asked if I wanted to go to this concert,” said Cooperstown Village Attorney Martin Tillapaugh. That concert? The famous Woodstock festival, held Aug. 15-18, 1969, on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in Bethel Woods, 50 years ago this week. “Woodstock was one of the most important cultural and music…
LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG AOC’s Family Lived In U.S. Since 1898, How About That? To the Editor: I have a problem with Mike Zagata’s last opinion piece. In it he quotes Donald Trump’s tweet, “So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democratic congresswomen who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go…
LETTER from KEVIN GRADY Want To Revive Baseball? Make It Kid-Centric Again To the Editor (and baseball fans everywhere): Kudos to former Baseball Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson for co-founding Grassroots Baseball, an effort to connect young kids to what at one time was our National Pastime. When my generation was growing up, we would race home after school to catch the World Series at about the third inning, creating fond, lifelong memories. My kids didn’t have that opportunity.…
COLUMN THE FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE The Newspaper Roundabout By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I’m at a loss to find a good simile for my Cooperstown newspaper career. It’s been a bit like a ping-pong game, but played like a flow of molasses. OK, forget figures of speech: Way back in the early ’90s, when I first moved north from Maryland, the redoubtable Lidie Mackie retired from her weekly Freeman’s Journal column about Fly Creek. She urged me to…
‘Luckiest People’ Belong To Clark Sports Center Former ACC Gymnasium Honored With Chamber Quality Of Life Award By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Jane Moyer has been exercising at the Clark Sports Center for 70 years, which may explain why she is still going strong at 99. She is one of 36 nonagenarian members – after 90, membership’s free – and they may best exemplify why Otsego County Chamber of Commerce chose the Clark Sports Center its Quality…
